{"id":250,"date":"2023-07-18T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:49:24","slug":"further-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Further reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several classic books offer a starting point for studying the Border Reivers, while published historical records allow readers to follow the events and people discussed in the longer articles.<\/p>\n<h2>Books and reviews<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/category\/book-reviews\/\\\">Browse the book reviews<\/a> for works on the Reivers, the Anglo-Scottish Border, its strongholds and its wider history. Some older titles may only be available through libraries or second-hand booksellers.<\/p>\n<h2>Historical sources<\/h2>\n<p>The site\u2019s research also draws on published documents, including Joseph Bain\u2019s <em>Calendar of Border Papers<\/em> and F. H. Mares\u2019s edition of Robert Carey\u2019s memoirs. Check library catalogues and <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/\\\">British History Online<\/a> for available editions and digitised material.<\/p>\n<p>For an example of how these sources inform an article, see <a href=\\\"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/2008\/02\/19\/sir-robert-carey\/\\\">Sir Robert Carey<\/a> and the linked studies of his Middle March wardenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore recommended books and historical sources on the Border Reivers, from classic studies to the Calendar of Border Papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-border-reivers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}